Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 254 306
Rank change year-on-year -89 +52 -12
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 596 570 634
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 1.15% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.29% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 311 258 304
10th Percentile £36,750 £44,549 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,125 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.96% +3.21% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £101,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £63,304
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.27% -2.61%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,487 44,218 59,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 89.02% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 59,402 24,461 32,381
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 7 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 7 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -93 526 £60,000 -17.24% 1,965
London -35 300 £70,000 -12.50% 1,309
UK excluding London -127 238 £60,000 -4.00% 793
Work from Home -21 190 £58,940 -15.80% 769
North of England -36 66 £60,000 -23.81% 143
South East -94 57 £42,000 -32.80% 218
North West +8 52 £65,250 -5.09% 88
Midlands -32 37 £48,500 -24.81% 115
South West -60 36 £60,000 - 87
West Midlands -41 27 £48,500 -15.65% 69
East of England -41 22 £70,000 +6.87% 82
Scotland +10 13 £77,500 +82.35% 92
Yorkshire -39 13 £57,500 -29.23% 42
East Midlands -28 10 £38,347 -48.87% 46
Northern Ireland -87 4 - - 37
Wales -68 3 £65,000 +8.59% 18
North East -69 1 - - 13

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 45 (7.55%) Confluence
2 21 (3.52%) CMS
3 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.50%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.50%) Drupal
5 1 (0.17%) Apache
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (3.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 15 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.17%) Moqups
6 5 (0.84%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.34%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.34%) Trello
8 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 20 (3.36%) Workfront
2 13 (2.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.84%) SAP PSCD
4 5 (0.84%) Shopify
5 3 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.50%) iTrent
6 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.17%) Eikon
7 1 (0.17%) Magento
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 1 (0.17%) RMDS
7 1 (0.17%) SAP ECC
7 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 75 (12.58%) SaaS
2 69 (11.58%) AWS
3 39 (6.54%) Azure
4 20 (3.36%) iPaaS
5 17 (2.85%) Power Platform
6 16 (2.68%) Figma
7 15 (2.52%) GCP
7 15 (2.52%) Google Workspace
8 11 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (1.68%) Anthropic Claude
10 7 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.17%) GitHub
10 7 (1.17%) GitHub Copilot
10 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.84%) Copilot Studio
12 5 (0.84%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.84%) Zapier
13 4 (0.67%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (0.67%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.36%) HTTP
2 24 (4.03%) Broadband
3 11 (1.85%) Firewall
4 10 (1.68%) WAN
5 8 (1.34%) DNS
5 8 (1.34%) LAN
6 7 (1.17%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.01%) DHCP
7 6 (1.01%) NX-OS
8 5 (0.84%) MPLS
9 4 (0.67%) Multicast
9 4 (0.67%) SAN
10 3 (0.50%) CTI
10 3 (0.50%) Internet
10 3 (0.50%) Intranet
10 3 (0.50%) Network Security
10 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.50%) VSAT
10 3 (0.50%) WLAN
11 2 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.03%) Metadata
2 16 (2.68%) Power BI
3 8 (1.34%) Big Data
4 7 (1.17%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.01%) BigQuery
6 4 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.34%) Mixpanel
8 2 (0.34%) MySQL
8 2 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.34%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.17%) Db2
9 1 (0.17%) GIS
9 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.17%) Redis
9 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 71 (11.91%) JIRA
2 11 (1.85%) Git
3 10 (1.68%) Claude Code
4 9 (1.51%) GitLab
4 9 (1.51%) Selenium
5 8 (1.34%) Postman
6 7 (1.17%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.84%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.67%) JUnit
9 2 (0.34%) TestNG
10 1 (0.17%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 192 (32.21%) Social Skills
2 180 (30.20%) Finance
3 162 (27.18%) Marketing
4 92 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (13.42%) Law
6 71 (11.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 70 (11.74%) Banking
8 56 (9.40%) Presentation Skills
9 43 (7.21%) Retail
10 40 (6.71%) Influencing Skills
11 37 (6.21%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (6.04%) Manufacturing
13 35 (5.87%) Public Sector
14 24 (4.03%) Legal
15 22 (3.69%) Electronics
16 20 (3.36%) Telecoms
17 17 (2.85%) Publishing
18 14 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (2.01%) Financial Institution
20 9 (1.51%) Cantonese Language
Job Titles
1 161 (27.01%) Product Manager
2 91 (15.27%) Lead
3 71 (11.91%) Senior
4 51 (8.56%) Product Owner
5 46 (7.72%) Software Engineer
6 35 (5.87%) Senior Manager
7 34 (5.70%) Lead Software Engineer
8 27 (4.53%) Development Engineer
8 27 (4.53%) Software Development Engineer
9 23 (3.86%) Product Lead
10 21 (3.52%) Senior Product Manager
11 15 (2.52%) Development Manager
11 15 (2.52%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (2.52%) Technical Manager
12 14 (2.35%) Architect
13 12 (2.01%) Business Analyst
13 12 (2.01%) Delivery Manager
13 12 (2.01%) Marketing Manager
13 12 (2.01%) Project Manager
14 11 (1.85%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.04%) REST
2 17 (2.85%) HTML
3 15 (2.52%) Google Maps API
4 13 (2.18%) React
5 12 (2.01%) Terraform
6 9 (1.51%) LangChain
6 9 (1.51%) XML
7 8 (1.34%) PyTorch
7 8 (1.34%) TensorFlow
8 7 (1.17%) Spring
9 6 (1.01%) Pandas
9 6 (1.01%) Spring Boot
10 5 (0.84%) CrewAI
10 5 (0.84%) CSS
10 5 (0.84%) LlamaIndex
10 5 (0.84%) SAP Fiori
11 4 (0.67%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.67%) LangGraph
11 4 (0.67%) NumPy
11 4 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 176 (29.53%) Product Ownership
2 39 (6.54%) Management Information System
3 37 (6.21%) AI Agents
4 30 (5.03%) Public Cloud
4 30 (5.03%) Social Media
5 29 (4.87%) Onboarding
6 22 (3.69%) Marketing Technology
7 20 (3.36%) Over-the-Top Content
8 16 (2.68%) Augmented Reality
9 15 (2.52%) Cloud Native
9 15 (2.52%) Virtual Reality
10 14 (2.35%) Data Centre
10 14 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (2.01%) Biopharmaceutical
11 12 (2.01%) Driving Licence
11 12 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (2.01%) Online Banking
11 12 (2.01%) Web Conferencing
12 10 (1.68%) Blog
12 10 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.85%) Linux
2 16 (2.68%) Windows
3 4 (0.67%) Unix
4 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) CentOS
5 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (52.52%) Roadmaps
2 208 (34.90%) Agile
3 165 (27.68%) Product Roadmap
4 157 (26.34%) AI
5 146 (24.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 139 (23.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 124 (20.81%) Decision-Making
8 106 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
9 105 (17.62%) Product Strategy
10 101 (16.95%) Customer Experience
11 95 (15.94%) Product Vision
12 89 (14.93%) Analytics
13 88 (14.77%) Project Management
14 85 (14.26%) Software Engineering
14 85 (14.26%) User Stories
15 84 (14.09%) Product Backlog
16 72 (12.08%) User Experience
17 71 (11.91%) Strategic Roadmap
18 70 (11.74%) Coaching
19 69 (11.58%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (7.72%) Java
2 42 (7.05%) Python
3 16 (2.68%) SQL
4 12 (2.01%) JavaScript
4 12 (2.01%) TypeScript
5 11 (1.85%) C++
6 9 (1.51%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.84%) ABAP
8 4 (0.67%) Bash
8 4 (0.67%) C#
8 4 (0.67%) R
9 3 (0.50%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.50%) PHP
10 2 (0.34%) Perl
11 1 (0.17%) C
11 1 (0.17%) XPath
Qualifications
1 147 (24.66%) Degree
2 43 (7.21%) Master's Degree
3 32 (5.37%) Security Cleared
4 31 (5.20%) MBA
5 27 (4.53%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.68%) HND
7 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.51%) HNC
8 9 (1.51%) PhD
8 9 (1.51%) PMP
9 7 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.17%) CSPO
9 7 (1.17%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.01%) CCNA
10 6 (1.01%) MCSE
11 5 (0.84%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.67%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.54%) QA
2 18 (3.02%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.52%) SLA
4 13 (2.18%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.51%) PMO
6 7 (1.17%) GDPR
7 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.34%) DICOM
8 2 (0.34%) HL7
8 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.34%) NIST
8 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.17%) PERC
9 1 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 9 (1.51%) Docker
1 9 (1.51%) Firmware
1 9 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (1.01%) vSphere
3 5 (0.84%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (1.51%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.01%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.50%) WSUS
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.17%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.17%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.17%) Kibana
5 1 (0.17%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 52 (8.72%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.03%) Salesforce
3 25 (4.19%) Google
4 23 (3.86%) Adobe
5 17 (2.85%) OpenAI
6 15 (2.52%) Cisco
6 15 (2.52%) Facebook
7 13 (2.18%) SAP
8 12 (2.01%) Oracle
8 12 (2.01%) Workday
9 9 (1.51%) VMware
10 6 (1.01%) Juniper
11 5 (0.84%) FIS
11 5 (0.84%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.84%) YouTube
12 3 (0.50%) Aderant
12 3 (0.50%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (0.50%) Fujitsu
12 3 (0.50%) iManage
12 3 (0.50%) ServiceNow